There is pretty much one thing that these places have that Reddit doesn’t and that is a lack of CCP-esque account tracking and banning. Every other problem Reddit has is still here. Asshole mods that have zero accountability, toxic communities with fringe hiveminds, they are all still here.
The one thing that will always be missing because of the independent and ‘federated’ nature of these websites is the actual people. These website are fucking ghost towns. Looking through the top communities on here, there are only a handful that even get multiple posts a day. If you make a post on here, unless it’s one of the top few communities, you’re lucky to get a single comment within a day, if you even get one at all. You may get a bit of upvotes, but no one engages. On Reddit, I can make a post on AITAH or CMV or something and get hundreds of comments within an hour.
Another affect this has is basically eradicate any ability to have smaller, more niche communities. Reddit is famous for having the most specific communities of all time. One time I went on r/vizio to fix my Vizio TV, and they had solutions for me within minutes. There is no other platform where you can do that, and Lemmy sure as hell doesn’t have the user numbers to allow for it. I mean you basically can’t even find populated subs on here for even specific game franchises, the closest you can get to it is just c/games.
So yes, while Lemmy doesn’t have the world’s most oppressive ban system like Reddit, there is just no real content or engagement on here to justify not just trying to ban evade on Reddit.
This is just my personal experience though, I’d love to hear what you guys have to think
I can agree with the community sentiment. Feels like we skimmed off the top layer of nerds from Reddit and they’re all ornery while trying to adapt to their new environment. I say that as one of them, lol.
I get that this is a relatively new frontier, but jeezaloo there are a lot of negative nellies around. “It’s the internet, block/ignore them” yadda yadda, sure, but it just feels like a more sizable amount of people who would close stackoverflow threads as “duplicate” and link to a thread that doesn’t answer the original poster’s question, ya feel me? Like, those kinds of Redditors.
I get that “remember the human” is an old, cringey netiquette, but I wish more folks on here would take that to heart. Hard to sell Lemmy as a viable alternative when folks treat people like they’re beneath them.
Makes me wonder how many on here were around when the term was coined and the behaviour was mostly expected.